Hakhel Resources: Alliance and Unity
A unique resource library for Jewish Intentional Communities.
Inspiration. Tools. Support.
2018 Spotlight on Filmmakers Podcast
"We train ourselves to reconnect" Bruce Parry.
How do you see the link between interconnectedness and reconnecting with the Planet? When do you feel you touch the core of your connection with yourself and with your enviroment?
Section: Care for Self, Care for Sustainability
The Individual and the Community
For many people, joining a community can require a change of mindset. This article gives insight into the process the indiviual goes through upon joining a community as well as the process a community goes through when new members join.
Section: Care for Community, Connect via Judaism
Outreach and Never Giving up on Someone
Inclusiveness and pluralism have become cornerstone vlues of our generation, and yet they are not easy to implememnt and accomplish. This collection of texts will take on a journey to explore the meaning of boundaries, "the other" and the inner circle.
While studying the texts, try to write down and share the main characteristics of your community. whatm akes it what it is? What is its identity? After defining what your community is, ask yourselves what is not? Where do we draw the line between "inside" and "outside", and how do we treat people respectfully on both sides of the line?
Section: Care for Community, Connect via Judaism
Learning and Doing With Our Committees
This sourcesheet was constructed for a specific US community, but we find it, and its questions, highly relevant to almost any community within the Hakhel network. Come learn and see for yourself
Read through the texts together, and discuss the questions within it
Section: Care for Community, Connect via Judaism
Communal Prayer – ????? ?????? Why I need you.
This resource looks at the power of communal togetherness form the perspective of the text of the Amida prayer.
Section: Care for Community, Connect via Judaism
Words of Experience: Starting a Community
Either you are a beginner or an expert, this is a good article to refresh your mind with.
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Activities Bank & Year Program, Alliance and Unity, Communal Life, Community Resilience, Decision Making and Management, Democracy - Sociocracy, Intentional Community, Leadership, Newcomers & Community Assembly, Rituals and Celebrations, Soft Skills and Heart-work, Teamwork, Vision, Volunteers
Join the fourth Jewish Intentional Communities Conference by Rachel Aronson, Jewschool
The power of gathering is bigger than words. Joining the year conerence of intentional communities is not for nothing a real milestone for all participants.
Section: Care for Community
Four Steps to a Stronger Community by Aharon Ariel Lavi and Meredith Levick, eJewishPhilanthropy
If make it simple, history tells what made communities stand strong. Read the basic conclusions fron the leaders of Hakhel.
Section: Care for Community
Decision making tools from the Urban Moshav – JICC 2018
A sharp tool for examining your way of decision making method.
Section: Care for Community
Community and Responsibility
Going back to this magical word ?responsibility?. What are the core beliefs behind it?
Section: Care for Community
Common Denominators of The Communities I Visited
Some of our most fundamental milestones appear in this article in such a fluent way, you will want to check it out and let it sink in. A wonderful insight, you will probably start identifying examples in the world around you after you recognise this phenomena.
What is the best way to describe the atmosphere of your shared time and space? Do your fellows feel the same?
Section: Care for Community
Another Kind of Leadership
Once you ask yourself how to turn a collective of people into a community, you will never look at a room of people in the same way again. This resource will guide you to this transformative understanding
Make a straw poll with your community members: *Do we feel like even partners? *How much do you see our day to day work as a horizontal venture? *What can add to our way of communication so mutual missions feel more inclusive? *Ask your fellows: what spices up your drive to do things for others?
Section: Care for Community
An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary
Interesting perspective which touches all aspects of our creation.
Section: Be Inspired
Tags: Alliance and Unity, Vision
